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Creative Writing Exercises Can Break Through Your Mental Blocks
By Rodger Bailey
Creative writing exercises are a method to get a stuck writer started in the writing task. Generally they involve getting the writer to change perspective so that the creative process is released and starts flowing for the author. These approaches can be as uncomplicated as asking the writer to characterize something they see now or that they remember. It can be as complex as instructing the wordsmith to describe only the colors or only the shapes. The basis of these approaches is to concentrate the thoughts, observations, and actions of the writer in such a way as to guide the writer around a mental blockage. By contemplating some specific form of something the writer can free up stuck resources to begin a stream which takes the writer forward. This is a matter of having a new frame-of-reference. These creative writing exercises are often games which moves the attention from something which is blocking the creative process of the wordsmith to a new view which is free flowing. A website has brought this idea to a new level. This site shows you photos and tells you to make up a short description about what you see (or don't see) in those photos. You can vote on the descriptions developed by the other members of the Internet site. But, you only have the opportunity to vote on one specific story one time. When you arrive on the website, it displays for you a photo from its photo gallery and prompts you to write about it. You can ask for another one and then it shows you the next one. The website can also show you the newest photo stories and the more highly ranked photo short stories. Even though there is a database of photos already on the website, you are encouraged to add your own. You are not allowed to write stories about your own photos. But, you do need to provide a proper description of your photo as you submit it. The website also offers a blog and a forum, where you are encouraged to post your own thoughts and ideas about the creative writing process. This Internet site gives each member a profile page and a Link Directory where you can list your site URLs and get links back to your own site. The site is fun and interesting. You can visit for a few minutes and start to break the log-jams which hold you back from your writing tasks.
Rodger Bailey has been focused on writing and the creative process for many years and enjoys participating in educational forums. He recently found the "Photo Fun And Games" site and thought you might like to participate in the website for some interesting creative writing exercises.
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Thanks for the tip! Many will find this useful. But being as prolific as you are it's hard to believe that you yourself might ever be in need of such exercises. 
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Thanks for your note. Sometime I hit a brick wall and nothing comes. I usually go do something completely different for a while. I wrote this note because the site I link to is so much fun. Rodger
Hi, Rodger,
I was always taught that whenever anything reached a dead end or a blank wall, the best thing to do was to go in another direction or start something else.
Banging away at a problem will only emphasise and cement the incorrect ideas you are generating so that, in the end, it becomes impossible to solve.
It's a bit like when you are trying to remember someone's name, the harder you try, the less likely you are to recall it. Shortly after you give up trying (or just as you are getting ready to go to sleep), the name will pop into your head.
I visited "Photo fun and games", looks very interesting. I'll be back for additional visits.
Thanks for the great advice once again.
Frederick
Thanks for these very thought provoking tips. I too, run into writers block.
It's a great concept, with genuine potential demand as the comments show. But the implementation needs to evolve if it's going to be successful. People expect Web 2.0-ish interfaces, i.e. utter simplicity going in.
 | | nick Dec 31, 2009 07:40 | |
Good ideas to break mental and writing blocks, Rodger. regards, peter
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